10 billion trillion trillion carat diamond found (No typos, yes I'm serious)

[YellowMaranello]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040213_1479.html

Astronomers Spy Massive Diamond
Astronomers Spy 10 Billion Trillion Trillion-Carat Diamond

The Associated Press



LOS ANGELES Feb. 13 — If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093. The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros. The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.





"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem.

The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus.

The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.

Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis.

A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication.


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It's only a matter of time before you see this mentioned in some rap song.

[MBTN]

That's not a star, that's my JEWELRY. Planet Bling, covered with my ICE y0!

[whtteg]

Originally Posted by MBTN

That's not a star, that's my JEWELRY. Planet Bling, covered with my ICE y0!

HAHA I can see that in a rap song LOL.

[TexasF355F1]

That's fucking crazy. I'd like to see what this thing looks like.

[zebrathree]

I'm off. Who's with me?

[Ace$nyper]

wow! yet again something neato the local news didn't say cause there to busy showing some damn lil kids sledding.
that would make Bling bling look strait begger

[2strokebloke]

I'm with you. You supply the rocket, and I'll find several light years worth of rope and a winch.

[publicenemy137]

you can give a female one of those and they still won't be satisfied

[kittedb18bt]

ahh crazy find. thanks. stuff like this makes me really really think.
"Geology Professor Stephen Haggerty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst goes a step further and suggests that star dust, in the form of carbon molecules, may have formed the seed nuclei that grew nearly all of the jewelry diamonds we have today."

http://www.johnshepler.com/articles/diamond.html

[Toksin]

LOL @ "hunk of celestial bling"

Planet Bling, here we come!

Rhys, move over, I'm driving.

[Toksin]

Originally Posted by Toksin

LOL @ "hunk of celestial bling"

Planet Bling, here we come!

Rhys, move over, I'm driving.

As for the rap song...

yo i got steez got my hoes
you can see, got as much bling as BPM 37093...

[dayna240sx]

Originally Posted by publicenemy137

you can give a female one of those and they still won't be satisfied

Well duh. It'd be too heavy to wear.

[kittedb18bt]

Originally Posted by Toksin

As for the rap song...

yo i got steez got my hoes
you can see, got as much bling as BPM 37093...

i dont know what is funnier: the fact that you quoted yourself, or that i can picture you rapping your scripts. (with the fro of course)

[zebrathree]

You're not fucking driving; I'm the one with the Rocket Licence here! ("R" endorsment).

[D[X]P]

DA/\/\n!!!

Thats tight

Too bad theres no pic..